Meren’s Bitter Ordeal [Primer]

Commander / EDH Control_Train

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More Tweaking —Oct. 29, 2018

IN

• Beast Within - one of the best spot removal spells in the colors
• Bojuka Bog - one of the best ways to clean out a graveyard
• Bontu's Last Reckoning - a clean three mana sweeper
• Dusk Legion Zealot - two mana can trip on a body; good sacrifice fodder
• Glowspore Shaman - finally decided to add this as it comes down early, fills the graveyard a bit, and can help hit land drops if needed but is not a required mode of the card
• Jadelight Ranger - this comes down early and can either find land drops or fill the graveyard; testing it but it may get cut
• Memorial to Folly - colored source that can help recur answers to problematic threats without Meren in play
• Reflecting Pool - colored, untapped land
• Satyr Wayfinder - comes down early and finds a land while filling the graveyard
• Temple of Malady - colored source, lets me scry
• Traverse the Ulvenwald - a solid tutor effect
• Volrath's Stronghold - how did I not play this before
• Wall of Blossoms - a can trip on a body; good sacrifice fodder

OUT

• Black Sun's Zenith - I'm sad to see this beautiful card get cut from my list, but I generally never have a ton of mana to pour into this, and Bontu's serves the same purpose better
• Deserted Temple - untapping Cabal Coffers is not that useful to be on a colorless land
• Dryad Arbor - god this card actually sucks and I hate it; sexy foil but I never want to see it
• Glacial Chasm - I just don't need this anymore
• Homeward Path - really not necessary in the deck because I can generally sacrifice Meren in response to someone trying to steal her
• Karn Liberated - Karn is really nice, but I put him in here for the purpose of saying "I can deal with emblems by restarting the game" but he is essentially just a seven mana removal spell because he never survives a turn cycle and feels very bad in my hand at all times pretty much
• Noxious Gearhulk - it's decent but it's slow and Ravenous Chupacabra is better
• Riftsweeper - this is good for combating graveyard hate, but it's easier to play around hate than have a dead card
• Skullmulcher - not as good as I thought; bad on an empty board and not supremely good on a full one
• RIP Svogthos, the Restless Tomb - it's so bad, it has to be cut; but I want it to work so badly
• Thief of Blood - it does what it does well, but I have enough planeswalker hate and creature +1/+1 strategies don't bother me because of Spore Frog
• Woodfall Primus - this is really good but it's just too slow
• Yahenni, Undying Partisan - he is the worst sacrifice outlet and while redundancy is good, flooding on sac outlets isn't great